Nursing Home Transition Diversion Waiver Services
NHTD waiver services are used to complement already available sources of support and services. The following provides general definitions. More specific information will be provided to applicants and participants as part of the service planning process. Others may access on the DOH Long Term Care section.
Service Coordination
Assistance with the development and implementation of a person-centered individualized Service Plan that will lead to the waiver participant's independence, integration into the community, health and welfare.
Assistive Technology
Equipment that will improve the participant's independence, decrease reliance on staff and be a cost effective aid for community integration. This service supplements Durable Medical Equipment provided through the general Medicaid program.
Community Integration Counseling
Counseling service provided to waiver participants who are coping with altered abilities and skills, revisions in long term expectations and/or changes in their roles in relation to significant others.
Community Transitional Services
Assistance in transitioning from a nursing home back to the community, including the cost of moving, essential furnishings, deposits for utilities, security deposits or one-time cleaning services prior to occupancy.
Congregate and Home Delivered Meals
Meals for waiver participants who cannot prepare or obtain nutritionally adequate meals for themselves, or when the provision of such meals will decrease the need for more costly supports to provide in-home meal preparation.
Environmental Modifications Services
Internal and external physical adaptations to the home necessary to assure the waiver participant's health and welfare in that setting. Environmental modifications may be made to a residence owned by the participant or to rental units with permission received from the landlord.
Home and Community Support Services
Oversight and/or supervision as a discrete service or in combination with assistance with activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL).
Home Visits by Medical Personnel
Services provided by a physician, nurse practitioner or physician's assistant to diagnose, treat and monitor wellness to preserve the waiver participant's functional capacity to remain at home. An evaluation of the caretaker's ability to maintain his/her role is conducted, as well as an assessment of the living environment to identify if it can support the participant's medical needs.
Independent Living Skills Training Services
Training to improve or maintain the waiver participant's ability to live as independently as possible by focusing on essential community living skills such as task completion, money management, interpersonal skills, sensory/motor skills, problem solving skills and the ability to maintain a household.
Moving Assistance
Transport of the participant's possessions and furnishings when moving from an inadequate or unsafe housing situation or to a location where more informal supports will be available.
Nutritional Counseling/Educational Services
Assessment, planning, education and counseling for the waiver participant's nutritional needs and eating patterns.
Peer Mentoring
Improvement of the waiver participant's self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and ability to access needed services, goods and opportunities in the community accomplished through education, teaching, instruction, information sharing, and self-advocacy training, provided by a "peer" (with similar disabilities).
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Services intended to decrease the frequency or intensity of the waiver participant's significant behavioral difficulties that may jeopardize his/her ability to remain in the community of choice due to inappropriate responses to events in his/her environment.
Respiratory Therapy
Services providing preventive, maintenance and rehabilitative airway-related techniques and procedures to the waiver participant in his/her home.
Respite Services
Relief for non-paid primary caregivers of a waiver participant provided in a 24 hour block of time in the home.
Structured Day Program Services
Outpatient congregate setting providing services designed to improve or maintain waiver participants' skills and abilities to live as independently as possible within the community. Services may include a wide array of interventions and supports ranging from pre-vocational skill building to socially-oriented activities.